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HOLLYWOOD IS A VERB. © Ed Ruscha. Edward Ruscha Studio.
ED RUSCHA is as much a part of LA as its sunsets, freeways, wildfires, and beaches. Lest we limit him as a regionalist, let us remember that California itself is a slippery character, an idea as much as a place. As the artist incisively observed in one of his late 70s pastels, “Hollywood is a verb.” Ruscha moved to LA from Oklahoma to attend Chouinard Art Institute in 1956. While a student there he fell in with what he jokingly refers to as the “wrong crowd”: artists like Billy Al Bengston and Robert Irwin, pioneers of LA Pop and the Finish Fetish movement, which appropriated the seductive sheen of Southern California topography, car culture, and surf culture. Ruscha and his colleagues were key progenitors of California cool. Working in relative isolation compared to New York, the contemporary art center of the 60s and 70s, Ruscha is a prolific producer of paintings, drawings, photographs, and books that draw directly and indirectly from LA as a subject, and have played a critical role in creating its cultural mystique today. He spoke to Fabrik about the germinal days of the LA art scene and his evolving relationship with the city.
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Marissa Roth: Photographer
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Marissa Roth has been a photographer for 25 years, specifically, a photojournalist and documentary photographer. Marissa has been greatly influenced by Renaissance and Impressionist painting and contemporary graphic design, and these mediums have formed the basis for her work as a photographer.
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Susan Rosman: Artist
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Susan Bein Rosman was born in Philadelphia and received her B.S. and M.A. degrees from Temple University. Her studies have included Brentwood Art Center with Sally Lamb and workshops with Ilana Bloch, Gerald Brommer, Virginia Cobb and Franklyn Liegel. She works in watercolor and mixed media, using collage to integrate intricate patterns.
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Anita Marci: Painter
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Now, you can stop searching for the perfect pieces of art. Anita Marci will create them for you! Generated from her West Maui Studio, these exciting new Custom Fine Art Concept have been extremely successful.
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Jason Shirriff: Ink Artist
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Jason A. D. Shirriff’s “Anschel Ink Drawings” inspire a sense of imagination and freeing from conventional Cartesian grid thinking.
“The ink drawings are tediously created and are meant to invite the viewer into a xenoscape experience; an experience of something that hasn’t been seen before, or was unknown.”
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